Ars Geometrica VIII…

Operation Three: ‘I am the rose of Sharon as the Lily among thorns so is my love among the daughters.’ – Song of Songs 2:1

The ‘Fifteenth’ Leaf.

In our mind’s eye we saw her:

She was deep in the earth…
…But far deeper than the deepest imaginable depth.

She moved in a Sanctum of Silence hewn from Living, Breathing Stone.
And she was three:
One was Movement and transcribed the geometric figures in air…
One was Heart and recited the formula with utmost precision of tone…
One was Mind and meditated on all that occurred.

A Fourth there was which oversaw each station and which also took her form.

And what a form it was:
A form transfigured by each Atu…

We were again minded of our studies:

THE GREAT ESCAPE

A man is tasked with liberating prisoners.
He finds them deluded.
Their history is prison history, their lives are prison lives.
They think and act accordingly.
Instead of hoarding bread they mould it into dominoes and play games with it.
The rats in prison are treated as pets instead of being trained to communicate with the outside world.
Alcohol is drunk in order to produce hallucinations rather than drug the guards…
The prisoners confuse common words…
‘Provisions’ to them means prison-food…
‘Journey’ means walking to and from cell blocks…
‘Escape’ means avoiding punishment…
When their would-be liberator says, ‘we need provisions for our escape to the outside world,’ he sounds like a madman.
To the inmates their prison is the world.
The liberator dies without accomplishing his task.
Those who tried to understand his words turn them into a prison cult and find questions for the next liberator who comes to set them free…
Nonetheless, occasionally there are some prisoners who escape.– A Sufi Parable

Is that what she was?
Was she an ‘Escapee’?
The Rose of Sharon…What did it mean?

Weekend Workshop 2018

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